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Feeding Your Gadget and Tech ObsessionsTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:49:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Bill Lassohttp://www.slashgear.com/toyota-installs-massive-1-1-megawatt-hydrogen-fuel-cell-generator-at-its-torrance-hq-18252599/#comment-269485
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:22:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=252599#comment-269485My question is how much did this big boy cost and what are the fuel bills and maintenance cost to keep it going?
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Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:06:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=252599#comment-258775If manufacturing facilities were powered by geothermal power (of which there is plenty in the US and simply not used) or other non-emission emitting sources of power (such as windmill and solar) then there are no emissions in the creation of the hydrogen either.

That’s how the Scandinavians do it.

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:21:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=252599#comment-246473Actually, a fair bit of hydrogen is now being produced from renewables, like off peak wind, and biomass. Toyota, in fact, “buys” their hydrogen indirectly from a renewable supplier and then trades it for the nearby hydrogen. E.ON, Germany’s largest utility is setting up to use Canadian co. Hydrogenics’ electrolysers to produce hydrogen from off peak wind. Much hydrogen is also a byproduct of industrial processes, where the GHG’s have already been taken into account. Some is from LNG, and the process cleans it up…
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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:46:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=252599#comment-246329Ah fuel cells. I do love them, but this article mentions one of the biggest misconceptions about fuel cells, they only alter the location of the emissions, not the output of them. What I mean- Fuel cells use Hydrogen, and in order to get hydrogen, we currently have 2 realistic options. Break it away from the Oxygen in water, which takes a lot of energy and that energy comes from Coal and Oil or Take the Hydrogen out of Oil which obviously has the same issue of using oil. Admitted producing all of the emissions in fewer locations allows the emissions to be sequestered or reused a little more easily, but from a national perspective, it doesn’t lower our dependence on Oil, or the emissions produced (but it does improve how the emissions are handled).

Ok, sorry rant over and fuel cells do have a lot of benefits. They can be very safe, they are quiet, they are a great alternative to a generator – they have a lot of very portable power and don’t need to be started and don’t produce more electricity than is demanded of them.